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title: It was the subject of an armed incident between Spain and Morocco in… — Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: It was the subject of an armed incident between Spain and Morocco in 2002. Who acts: sovereignty. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Spain» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Spain, sentence 389

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From Wikipedia, [«Spain»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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It was the subject of an armed incident between Spain and Morocco in 2002.

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**Who acts:** sovereignty · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** subject, 2002

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Spain». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sovereignty), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Spain:389
# text = It was the subject of an armed incident between Spain and Morocco in 2002.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	between	between	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Morocco	Morocco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	2002	2002	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | sovereignty | the subject |  | 2002 |  | of a armed incident between Spain and Morocco | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Spain», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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